Adam M. Wilson
August 31, 2015
GEO 503
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R is a dialect of the S language and environment developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T) by John Chambers and colleagues (the same group that developed C and UNIX©)
Over 6k packages!
Task Views organize packages by topic: [http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/]
“… all the code and data used to recreate Mann’s original analysis has been made available to the public […] in R” Matthew Pocernich, R news 6/4, 10/31/06
If you can imagine it…
Packages: sp, maptools, rgeos, raster, ggmap
Example: species range overlays
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Packages: sp, maptools, rgeos, raster, ggmap
Example: Visualizing Data with basemaps with ggmap
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For BIG jobs:
multi-core processors / high performance computing